AVI file size HUGE and export VERY slow

[Rob0368]

Hi,

I am new to video editing and could really use some help.
I am capturing clips from my analog camcorder using Adobe Premiere 6.0 and storing them as avi files. The playback is very good quality. I also was able to export and encode to MPEG-2 format...but it took a VERY long time (about 1 hour for a 3 min clip). Also, the size of the original AVI file is 1.2 gigs (about 53MB in MPEG-2 format)! I can't believe this is normal for a PIII 450Mhz system.

I realize that I am leaving out details re my settings, but I would really appreciate any tips on reducing file size and time to export while still maintaining fairly good playback quality.

Thank you in advance,

Rob

 

[WizyWyg]

Its quite normal; if you're capturing at uncompressed avi.

10 megs per 1 second of video is the running standard at 44.1 Khz Audio/stereo. A three minute video is about 1.8 Gb.

Depending on how much memory (and your system is slow by today's standards) a three minute video to encode via Adobe Premiere will take an hour at least ( A 6 minute on my PII 200 when I had Adobe 5.1 RT took 8 hours). And it was rendering from Mjpeg Avi.

That same 6 minute video on my P4 1.6 Ghz now takes 15 minutes in Adobe Premiere 6.0

Though, me, i really dont like Adobe Premiere's MPG plugin (encoder) so I opt to use others.

Take a look over at

http://www.vcdhelp.com/

for MPEG encoding tools. One I suggest is TMpegEnc (Tsunami Mpeg Encoder). You'll have to pay a small license fee for it to encode into DVD Mpeg2, but its freeware nonetheless for other mpg encoding (including to vcd). Its much faster to encode to mpeg that way

 

[Rob0368]

Great info! Thanks WizyWyg. Looks like it's time to upgrade my system

 

[egor]

Adobes got a patch for the mainconcept Mpeg encoder which makes Premiere 65 Behave

http://www.mainconcept.com/adobempeg/downloads/AdobeMPEGEncoder1.2Eng.exe

hope this helps

 

[WizyWyg]

Rob - Yeah, that's was my conclusion about my pII 200 when I started to learn how to do digital video editing.